Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Scholar ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Unity Of God ◽  
First Time ◽  
Modern Work

Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide-ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, psychology, political philosophy, and the unity of God. Ibn Kammūna, a Jewish scholar writing in Baghdad during a time of Mongol occupation, was a controversial figure whose writings sometimes incited riots. He argued, among other things, the commonality of all monotheisms, both prophetic and philosophical. Here, for the first time in English, is a surprisingly modern work on the unity of all monotheistic regimes from a key medieval philosopher.

Coleridge's “ideal Realism”: an alternative to the “doctors of the Absolute”?

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mary Anne Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
The Political ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
First Time

A few months ago I read Peter Nicholson's The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists for the first time. In the index I found more than a hundred references to Hegel and only one to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. However, as many of the latter's writings, published for the first time in recent years, become generally accessible there is an increasing sense that he has been unfairly deprived of his due status as a philosopher. This is partly, no doubt, the syndrome of the prophet in his own country and partly the inevitable consequence of much of his later work remaining unpublished until recent years. Coleridge himself, with what some would take to be confirmation of an over-sensitivity to criticism, felt the neglect of his work went deeper and betrayed an anti-philosophical trait in British character. Despite his close reading of the work of many of his German contemporaries it seems that he did not read more than sixtyone pages of Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik. His margin notes to this work are, on the whole, negative in their criticism. However, despite significant disagreements, there is much common ground in theme, argument and conclusion between his many drafts of the ‘Logosophia’, his intended magnum opus, and Hegel's system.

scholarly journals Śaivism after the Śaiva Age: Continuities in the Scriptural Corpus of the Vīramāheśvaras

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Elaine M. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
The Common ◽  
Popular Work ◽  
First Time

This article makes the case that Vīraśaivism emerged in direct textual continuity with the tantric traditions of the Śaiva Age. In academic practice up through the present day, the study of Śaivism, through Sanskrit sources, and bhakti Hinduism, through the vernacular, are generally treated as distinct disciplines and objects of study. As a result, Vīraśaivism has yet to be systematically approached through a philological analysis of its precursors from earlier Śaiva traditions. With this aim in mind, I begin by documenting for the first time that a thirteenth-century Sanskrit work of what I have called the Vīramāheśvara textual corpus, the Somanāthabhāṣya or Vīramāheśvarācārasāroddhārabhāṣya, was most likely authored by Pālkurikĕ Somanātha, best known for his vernacular Telugu Vīraśaiva literature. Second, I outline the indebtedness of the early Sanskrit and Telugu Vīramāheśvara corpus to a popular work of early lay Śaivism, the Śivadharmaśāstra, with particular attention to the concepts of the jaṅgama and the iṣṭaliṅga. That the Vīramāheśvaras borrowed many of their formative concepts and practices directly from the Śivadharmaśāstra and other works of the Śaiva Age, I argue, belies the common assumption that Vīraśaivism originated as a social and religious revolution.

A Thirteenth-Century Ismā ‘īlī Ḥammām at Qal‘at al-Kahf

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Public Baths ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Public Bath ◽  
First Time

SummaryThe aim of this paper is to record for the first time the architectural remains of a thirteenth-century public bath (ḥammām) located at the Assassin castle of al-Kahf in the Syrian Jabal Anṣariya. After describing the site, the paper examines the design and layout of the ḥammām and attempts to reconstruct those parts of it which have disappeared either because of structural decay or because of subsequent modifications to the plan. Building materials and decorative techniques are among the topics discussed, and there is an account of the ḥammām's heating apparatus and of the arrangements made to store and articulate its water supply. Two phases of construction are identified in the ḥammām, the second being necessitated, apparently, by a need to restore the building after it had fallen into disrepair at some later stage in its history. Finally, the ḥammām is compared and contrasted with a number of other Islamic public baths in order to establish the extent to which it followed earlier traditions of planning and design.

St. Cyprian and Moissac: A Thirteenth-Century Sequence

Traditio ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Maurice Bévenot
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Full Length ◽  
The Poor ◽  
First Time ◽  
Special Notice ◽  
The Way

The discovery of an ancient sequence might not at first sight seem to deserve any special notice. No doubt its absence in the monumental collections of A. M. Dreves and C. Blume, and in U. J. Chevalier's Repertorium hymnologicum, may surprise us, but the poor quality of so many of the sequences there collected may justify an initial indifference to the unearthing of yet another. How was it missed by those indefatigable collectors? Perhaps the reason is that they confined themselves mainly to liturgical books whereas the sequence here presented for the first time is found in one single manuscript which is not a liturgical book but a collection of works by St. Cyprian. These had been transcribed round about the year 1100, and the sequence, words and music, was added to the beginning of the codex in the first part of the thirteenth century. That it was missed is, then, no surprise, but a full-length treatment seems to be called for, because of the light it throws on the history, both factual and literary, behind it, as also possibly on the music of the time and the way that a sequence was then constructed. At least some of its more interesting features can here be gathered together.

The Last of The Shireburnes: The Art of Death and Life in Recusant Lancashire, 1660–1754

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Callow
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Market Town ◽  
Distant Market ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Mansion

When J. M. Turner came to make his sketches of Stonyhurst Hall and the neighbouring church at Great Mitton, for the first time in 1799, he was immediately struck by the melancholia and faded splendour of that part of ‘darkest’ rural Lancashire. Perched high upon the brow of Longridge, the mansion commanded sweeping views of the valley beneath, of Pendle Hill and of the distant market town of Clitheroe; while the thirteenth century church of All Hallows—almost lost in the folds of the countryside—sat squatly on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, at the confluence of the Rivers Calder, Ribble and Hodder, and served as a stubborn reminder of an earlier and less secular age. Relatively untouched by the forces of industrialisation, these buildings proved a delight to the Gothic imagination of the young artist.

Tibetan, Burmese and Chinese Inscriptions from Bodhgayā in the British Museum

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-439
Author(s):  
TSERING GONGKATSANG ◽  
MICHAEL WILLIS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
First Time

AbstractThis article is concerned with four inscriptions found at Bodhgayā in the nineteenth century that are documented by records kept in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Two Tibetan inscriptions, probably dating between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, are of special note because they provide the first archaeological evidence for Tibetans at the site. Chinese and Burmese records of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth century are also noted, that of the Song emperor Renzong (1022–63) being illustrated for the first time.

scholarly journals Η ευδαιμονία ως σκοπός της παιδείας στο πλαίσιο του ευρωπαϊκού και του νεοελληνικού διαφωτισμού

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Όλγα Χριστοδουλίδου
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Liberation Education ◽  
Greek Manuscript ◽  
Spiritual Movement ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

The Ph.D. Thesis consists, in addition to the Introduction, of two Parts and one Appendix. Part One deals with European Enlightenment as a spiritual movement and the dimensions that the idea of eudaimonia as an aim of education has taken in its context. Part Two deals with how Greek scholars of Modern Greek Enlightenment, and especially scholars within the ideological circle of Adamantios Korai, approached the idea of eudaimonia or “happiness on earth” as the object of education. The thesis explores the meaning of education specifically for Greeks as a means of happiness, as it is primarily understood as a means of spiritual and political liberation. Education can lead to prosperity and prosperity, which is conditionally based on freedom, both political and individual, should be pursued through an educational content of both moral philosophy, political philosophy, and a properly structured Christian education. Part One, which contains 4 chapters, presents the problem of European Enlightenment in relation to education, in order to establish the relevance of Modern Greek to European Enlightenment in relation to the interconnection of education and eudaimonia. Part Two, dealing with Modern Greek Enlightenment, examines how scholars belonging to the Korai ideological circle approach the relationship of happiness and education. Following is an Appendix presenting, briefly but for the first time, an 18th-century Greek manuscript dedicated to the collection of the Holy Archimandrite of Aigio, which saves a work entitled Practical Philosophy under the name of Antonios Moschopoulos (1718-1788). The work, among others, deals with issues of Ethical and Political Philosophy and addresses the issue of the relation of education and well-being. A precise table of comparison of the chapters between the Greek manuscript and the original Latin work written by Ludwig Philipp Thümmig (1697-1728), a student of Christian Wolff (1679-1754) is also given. In summary, the originality of the thesis lies in the following. (1) For the first time, an overall view is given of the concept of eudaimonia in the ethical and political texts of Modern Greek Enlightenment and its relation to education. (2) It is attempted to ascertain the equilibrium attempted in these Greek sources between “secular-earthy happiness” and “heaven bliss”. (3) It appears that the main source for the ethical and pedagogical ideas the Greek enlightenment scholars used, were the works of scholars representing the "moderate" stream of the European Enlightenment, which were translated or reproduced freely by modern Greek scholars.

William of Auvergne on Time and Eternity

Traditio ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 125-141
Author(s):  
Roland J. Teske
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Correct Position ◽  
Latin West ◽  
First Time

In the early thirteenth century Christian thinkers in the Latin West encountered for the first time the Aristotelian philosophy that was pouring into Europe through translations from Arabic into Latin. William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was one of the principal figures in the first reception of the Aristotelian writings in the West. William, in fact, displayed a remarkable openness to Aristotelian thought, embracing much of it as his own, while firmly rejecting other teachings as opposed to the faith. Despite the various ecclesiastical prohibitions against the teaching of Aristotelian philosophy during the first half of the century, William said, “Although in many matters we have to speak against Aristotle, as is truly right and proper — and this holds for all the statements by which he contradicts the truth — he should still be accepted, that is, upheld, in all those statements in which he is found to have held the correct position.”

A medieval patchwork song: poetry, prayer and music in a thirteenth-century conductus

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY CHANNEN CALDWELL
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Textual Construction ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACTEight times a day, the prayerDeus in adiutorium meum intendesounded from the lips of the faithful as the standard introduction to the Office Hours. Infiltrating daily life through the liturgy and popular interjections, the psalm verseDeus in adiutoriumserved a devotional function marked by versatility and popularity. Yet, despite its omnipresence, as well as its inherently vocalic identity, the verse was only rarely troped musically or poetically. A collection of thirteenth-century monophonic and polyphonic tropes of the verse circulating in France in motet collections and festive offices represents one of the few moments of heightened musical interest in the prayer. This article draws attention, for the first time, to the musical and textual connection between these tropes andPater creator omnium, a thirteenth-century refrain song. This monophonic song from France also belongs firmly to the medieval cento genre, with both its musical and textual construction based on the piecing together of borrowed text and music – includingDeus in adiutorium. This article argues thatPater creator omniumstands at the intersection of two important yet understudied histories: the musical and textual troping ofDeus in adiutoriumand the medieval cento. Analysis of this song ultimately illustrates the creative processes behind the making of a pre-modern song.

Meshal Haqadmoni Fables from the Distant Past

2004 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Political Compromise ◽  
First Time ◽  
Speculative Thought ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

The wondrous fables of Ibn Sahula in Meshal haqadmoni, presented here in English for the first time, provide a most unusual introduction to the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain. Ibn Sahula wrote his fables in rhymed prose, here rendered into English as rhymed couplets. They comprise a series of satirical debates between a cynic and a moralist, put into the mouths of animals; the moralist always triumphs. The debates, which touch on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, amply reflect human foibles, political compromise, and court intrigue. They are suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore, a flavour reinforced by the profusion of biblical quotations reapplied. With parallel Hebrew and English texts, explanatory notes, indication of textual variants, and references for all the biblical and other allusions, this edition has much to offer to scholars in many areas: medieval Hebrew literature, medieval intellectual history, Sephardi studies, and the literature and folklore of Spain. Both the translation and the scholarly annotations reflect a deep understanding of Ibn Sahula's world, including the interrelationship of Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic speculative thought and the interplay between those languages.

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